Why has groundwater use increased?
a. the total amount of freshwater has decreased
b. more of the available freshwater is stored in glaciers and icecaps
c. governments have banned the use offreshwater in rivers and springs
d. the demand for freshwater has increased due to population growth

The correct answer is - d. the demand for freshwater has increased due to population growth.

The freshwater is not evenly redistributed across the world. While some places have abundance of it (like England), some don't even have a single drop of freshwater (like Saudi Arabia).

The population in the world is on a constant rise, so more people means more freshwater is needed. Because some areas do not have enough water for their population to be satisfied, they have turned to using the groundwater, and in the past decades that has led to draining a lot of groundwater reservoirs, which in turn causes problems with sinking ground, and cracks in the ground etc.

without the article i believe the answer could be a because algeria is a low soci-economic country in africa and most countries that ahve such qualities lack womens rights

since there isn't any suggested answers i will give you the reason and hopefully you can figure it

south africa, or rather all of africa, has not been in the location in which it is nowadays throughout the geological past. after the super-continent pangaea started to break apart, gondwanaland, in which was africa, moved further south, and parts of it came to be very close to the south pole. because the climate in this part of the world is very cold due to the very dispersed sun rays in there, what is now south africa, started to freeze, and the conditions were right for the formation of glaciers. the glaciers existed up until the period when gondwanaland started to break apart and what is now africa started to move towards north, sp it warmed up and the glaciers melted.